Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

29092 books were found.

Iliad

Iliad

Author: Homer
ISBN: 9781336100916
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

The 'red Macmillan' Iliad inthe edition of W. Leaf, which had served since the 1880s, was replacedin 1978 and 1984...  Read More >>

Le Miroir de Renart: Pour Une Redecouverte de 'Renart Le Contrefait'

Le Miroir de Renart: Pour Une Redecouverte de 'Renart...

Author: Craig Baker ,  Mattia Cavagna
ISBN: 9782960076967
Format: Paperback
$147.84

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Ecology of World Literature

Ecology of World Literature

Author: Dr Alexander Beecroft (Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781336098589
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

What constitutes a nation's literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In...  Read More >>

Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters

Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters...

Author: Emil J Polak
ISBN: 9781336098954
Format: Electronic book text
$794.64

In Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters Emil J. Polak provides a singular inventory of hundreds...  Read More >>

Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)

Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)

Author: Kazutomo Karasawa
ISBN: 9781782044918
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year.  Read More >>

Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture

Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture...

Author: Elizabeth Cox ,  Liz Herbert McAvoy
ISBN: 9781782044703
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

A consideration of the ways in which the past was framed and remembered in the pre-modern world.  Read More >>

Complete Story of the Grail

Complete Story of the Grail

Author: Chr Troyes ,  Nigel Bryant (Cranfield School of Management)
ISBN: 9781336288584
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chretien de Troyes' Perceval at the...  Read More >>

Suetonius: Life of Augustus

Suetonius: Life of Augustus

Author: D. Wardle (NKGV Professor of Classics, NKGV Professor of Classics, University of Cape Town)
ISBN: 9780199686452
Format: Hardback
$415.95

This volume provides the first large-scale commentary on Suetonius' Life of Augustus together with an English translation,...  Read More >>

Disobedient Practices: Textual Multiplicity in Medieval and Golden Age Spain

Disobedient Practices: Textual Multiplicity in Medieval...

Author: Anne Roberts ,  Belen Bistue
ISBN: 9781588712615
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The cultural landscape which characterized Spain from the time of the Muslim invasion to the heights of its Golden...  Read More >>

Recollecting Dante's Divine Comedy in the Novels of Mark Helprin: The Love That Moves the Sun and the Other Stars

Recollecting Dante's Divine Comedy in the Novels of...

Author: Sara MacDonald ,  Barry Craig
ISBN: 9780739181966
Format: Hardback
$246.00

This book studies the novels of writer Mark Helprin in relation to Dante’s Divine Comedy by demonstrating that Helprin’s...  Read More >>

Leben Der Byzantinischen Kaiser (976-1075) / Chronographia: Griechisch - Deutsch

Leben Der Byzantinischen Kaiser (976-1075) / Chronographia:...

Author: Michael Psellos ,  Diether Roderich Reinsch
ISBN: 9783110300857
Format: Hardback
$295.68

Die ""Chronographia"" des Michael Psellos (der Titel stammt nicht vom Autor selbst) ist ein herausragendes Werk...  Read More >>

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

Author: Gerd Bayer (University of Erlangen, Germany) ,  Ebbe Klitgard (Roskilde University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781138849945
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th...  Read More >>

Varied Types

Varied Types

Author: Gilbert Chesterton
ISBN: 9781505462500
Format: Paperback
$15.18

This collection of literary essays and literary biographies from G.K. Chesterton includes the following works: Charlotte...  Read More >>

Hayren-Dichtung Und Minnesang: Ein Struktureller Und Motivgeschichtlicher Vergleich

Hayren-Dichtung Und Minnesang: Ein Struktureller Und...

Author: Hasmik Melkonyan
ISBN: 9783847103394
Format: Hardback
$198.00

English summary: The topic of this study is the medieval love poetry of Armenia and Germany: Hayren-poetry and...  Read More >>

The End and Beyond

The End and Beyond

Author: John Carey ,  Emma Nic Carthaigh
ISBN: 9781891271205
Format: Hardback
$155.12

What awaits us beyond the grave is perhaps the fundamental human mystery. Visionary accounts of the afterlife are...  Read More >>

Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist: Old English and Old Norse in His Life and Work

Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist: Old English and...

Author: M. Toswell
ISBN: 9781137451293
Format: Hardback
$143.95

The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone...  Read More >>

God, His Servant, and the Nations in Isaiah 42:1-9: Biblical Theological Reflections after Brevard S. Childs and Hans Hübner

God, His Servant, and the Nations in Isaiah 42:1-9:...

Author: Frederik Poulsen
ISBN: 9783161536366
Format: Paperback
$255.90

Frederik Poulsen investigates the role of the Old Testament in biblical theology. Analyzing the works of Brevard...  Read More >>

Monotheism in Late Prophetic and Early Apocalyptic Literature: Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on Early Jewish Monotheism Vol. III

Monotheism in Late Prophetic and Early Apocalyptic Literature:...

Author: Ken Brown ,  Nathan MacDonald
ISBN: 9783161532405
Format: Paperback
$231.32

Discussion of early Jewish monotheism has focused on its origins in earlier Israelite religion, while its development...  Read More >>

Malory's Anatomy of Chivalry: Characterization in the Morte Darthur

Malory's Anatomy of Chivalry: Characterization in the...

Author: Paul Rovang
ISBN: 9781611477788
Format: Hardback
$232.00

This book examines sixteen key figures in the Morte Darthur providing insight into each as an exemplar of chivalric...  Read More >>

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